Tag: Akure
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Akeredolu advises residents to steer clear of explosion site
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has urged residents to steer clear of Saturday’s explosion site at Ilu Abo on the Akure-Owo express way. A truck laden with dynamites being transported to Edo from Lagos State had developed a fault and exploded around 1am. The governor, who visited the scene of the explosion on Saturday,…
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See photos of properties destroyed in Akure explosion
It is no longer news that no fewer than 50 persons were injured and many properties smashed during an early morning explosion in Akure, Ondo State. The explosion, which occurred about 1 am on Saturday, also cut off the Akure/Owo road. Below are the pictures from the explosion scene
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Irate youths set ablaze Akure church over missing baby ‘buried at altar’ [VIDEO]
Sotitobire Miracle Church in Akure, Ondo state, has been set ablaze by irate youths over speculations that the corpse of a one-year-old boy declared missing was exhumed in the church. It has not been confirmed if the body of the child was found in the church. TheNewsGuru gathered that the police are said to…
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Drunk policeman goes on stabbing spree, injures nine in Ondo
Not less than nine persons have seriously been injured by an allegedly drunk policeman, identified as Taiwo Orisadare, who went on a stabbing spree at a nightclub in Akure, the Ondo State capital, at the weekend. The policeman, attached to the Area Commander’s office, Akure, allegedly stabbed the victims, who were said to be young…
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Toddler, four others die as fuel tanker falls, explodes in Akure
Tragedy occurred on Wednesday evening in Akure, the capital city of Ondo State as a petrol tanker carrying 33,000 litres of petrol fell at Shagari Village junction on Akure-Owo expressway, killing four people and a toddler. The incident occurred few metres to an NNPC petrol station as the tanker spilled its content on the road…
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2019: Obasanjo holds secret talks with Afenifere leaders in Akure [Photos]
As the 2019 election year approaches, former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday visited leaders of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, at the residence of the leader of the group, Pa Reuben Fasoranti in Akure, Ondo State. The meeting, which lasted for almost 30 minutes, had the former President calling for the cooperation of the group…
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Pastor’s wife commits suicide in Ondo
A Pastor, Adeolu Babatola, is helping Police detectives in Ondo State to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, Opeyemi Babatola, whose body was discovered, on Monday, hanging in an uncompleted flat in their compound in Akure, the state capital. It was gathered from a Police source that the 52-year-old mother of three…
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FUTA, partners launch satellite, NigeriaEdusat-1 into space
At Exactly 10:07 a.m. on Saturday, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, made history when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launched Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. The Nigerian CubeSat, code name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned…